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From Language to Location Using Multiple Instance Neural Networks

Jun 2018

  • Conference Paper

International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation

Language patterns pertaining to a geographic region has various uses including cultural exploration, disaster response and targeted advertising. In this paper, we propose a method for geographically locating short text data within a multiple instance learning framework augmented by neural networks. Our representation learning approach tackles minimally pre-processed social media discourse and discovers high level language features that are used for classification. The proposed method scales and adapts to datasets relating to 15 cities in the United States. Empirical evaluation demonstrates that our approach outperforms state of the art in multiple instance learning while providing a framework that alleviates the need for subjective feature engineering based approaches.

Citation:

Nagpaul S., Rangwala H. (2018) From Language to Location Using Multiple Instance Neural Networks. In: Thomson R., Dancy C., Hyder A., Bisgin H. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10899. Springer, Cham

Authors

  • Huzefa Rangwala
  • Sneha Nagpaul
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Topics:

  • Geospatial
  • Networks

Research Areas:

  • Criminal network analysis
  • Network analytics

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